PHail [dot net] Blog - Design, Programming, and other things. » Ramblings http://phail.net A creative and sometimes technical blog about Design and Programming as well as other things. Sat, 22 May 2010 04:23:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Soon to be in China! http://phail.net/2008/10/12/soon-to-be-in-china/ http://phail.net/2008/10/12/soon-to-be-in-china/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:12:27 +0000 Mike Wojo http://phail.net/2008/10/12/soon-to-be-in-china/ Since I’m leaving on Monday for China, I thought I would try out posting to my blog from my iPod touch!

So here it is.

]]> http://phail.net/2008/10/12/soon-to-be-in-china/feed/ 2 It’s Official — I’m With MediaTemple! http://phail.net/2008/05/08/its-official-im-with-mediatemple/ http://phail.net/2008/05/08/its-official-im-with-mediatemple/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 03:31:52 +0000 Mike Wojo http://phail.net/?p=25 Hurray, I finally purchased my very own Grid-Server with MediaTemple. I had heard very good things, so I decided I should check out what all the buzz was about.

 

 

So far, I’m very happy, it’s fast, I love the control panel, and the move was relatively easy. Looking forward to some great hosting. :)

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07-11-08 Korea 07, originally uploaded by goodalefampics.

Wow, ever since the start of their 2D Side-Scrolling MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) MapleStory, developed by Wizet, I’ve been interested in this company from South Korea. They seem to just continuously pump out great websites, great games, and the obviously top of the line setups for conventions!

They have a North American division, and it started as NX Games and changed later to Nexon America. Their flagship product was MapleStory, and to my knowledge it is still their biggest and most popular game, at least in America.

Wouldn’t it be cool to work for this company? ;)

]]> http://phail.net/2008/05/05/dang-nexon-is-intense/feed/ 2 BootCamp + Windows XP SP1 = Epic Phail http://phail.net/2008/04/10/bootcamp-windows-xp-sp1-epic-phail/ http://phail.net/2008/04/10/bootcamp-windows-xp-sp1-epic-phail/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:26:16 +0000 Mike Wojo http://phail.net/?p=3 Well, unfortunately for me I ran across a problem while using my gorgeous 20-inch aluminum iMac Intel Duo I purchased somewhat recently.  I decided that I would install Windows XP through BootCamp, even though I already had Parallels with XP on it. (What was I thinking?)  So I start it up, get the installation going, but when I go to pick the partition, it was looked quite odd to me seeing that there was only one partition and it was much larger than I set BootCamp to give Windows.  So, I exited thinking I’d avoid problems.

Wrong.

Upon restarting the computer, it was rendered nearly useless. The only thing that I saw was a blank white screen along with the familiar sound of the Apple start-up noise. I pretty much panicked.  It wouldn’t load from CD, it wouldn’t recognize anything (including any operating system whether it be Windows or Mac) and to make it even worse, there seemed to be very little help available online to help fix my problem.  So there sat my Mac; a very pretty paperweight.

For the next day and a half I searched the Internet vigorously for some kind of solution.  I did manage to find two useful articles.  I took the two articles and sort of combined them to fix my Mac.

From what I can tell now, it is a problem with BootCamp and SP1 where it deletes or corrupts the partition map.  Once I can put everything together, I’ll post an in-depth guide to fixing your Mac if it is experiencing a problem like I’ve had.

Oh, and for the record, I still and always have loved Macs, and this doesn’t change that.  If anything it brings me closer to my machine. :)

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